Neru (നേര്)

Thumba Police Station.

Yes, Circle Inspector speaking.

Where?

Sir, I made the call to the station.

Sir, this is the girl's father.

- Please wait outside. - Okay, sir.

Where is the girl?

- Record her statement. - Okay, sir.

- Are you Seema? - Yes.

You were not here?

After Sir and his wife left for the wedding,

I had gone to the bank.

What do you do?

I have a business, sir.

I run a Curio shop at Kovalam.

Shanthi, what did the police say? Have they found out who it is?

How can a blind girl identify the person?

There has been contact.

Vaginal wall contusion is there.

We've collected the swab.

Report?

It will be ready by tomorrow. I'll give it tomorrow.

Okay.

The mother and daughter can sit here.

You please wait outside.

After Dad and Mom went out,

Seema Chechi went to the bank.

I went to take a bath then.

When I got out after the bath,

I felt the presence of someone else in the room.

No, Mom!

I'll sleep alone.

- But, dear... - Mom, please.

I want to be alone.

Don't force her.

Don't lock the door, dear.

What did the police say?

They need to find who it is.

That's the first major obstacle.

It's not like other ordinary cases, right?

Since she is blind....

This is it, sir.

Did your daughter make this?

Yes, sir.

She does sculptures.

She had learned it before she lost her eye-sight.

But how can she do this without seeing the person?

While he was assaulting me,

I discerned his face through my fingers.

We suspect someone, sir.

The day before the incident,

a boy who resembles this sculpture had come here asking for directions.

He had come to our neighbour Vinod's house.

What's the name of your friend?

His name is Michael, sir.

He is my class-mate.

Why did he come here?

To invite me for his wedding.

Do you know where he would be, at present?

Hello! Michael, right?

Yes.

- Come. - What is it, sir?

- Come. - Come on.

- Come, we'll tell you. - What's the matter?

Dear!

- Take her away! - Dear!

At today's identification parade in Thumba, Thiruvananthapuram,

for the assault case of the blind girl,

she successfully identified the culprit.

The girl, who's the victim in the rape case,

identified the culprit through sound and touch.

The accused Michael Joseph, who has been arrested,

is the son of Mumbai based Malayali businessman Christopher Joseph.

He's engaged to the Central Minister's daughter...

This is the punishment that the Lord has given him, for deserting us.

First, the girl lost her eye-sight.

And now, this.

This won't be the end of it.

He will continue to suffer!

In the name of settlements and compensations,

I have invested a lot on you.

And I am still investing!

Why are you humiliating us like this?

Your wedding has been fixed, right?

What do we tell them now?

Christy, what will we do now?

Let him stay behind bars for some time.

Let's see whether he mends his ways at least then.

What's the point in crying?

Didn't you see how he's behaving?

You must save him somehow.

Shall we try talking to that girl's family?

- Or, shall we go to their place? - Ancy, this is not Mumbai.

This is Kerala!

I don't want to know all that, Christy.

You must save him, come what may!

I need Advocate Rajashekhar!

He's mostly in Delhi now, sir.

- I don't care! I want him here! - Sir!

- Hi, CJ! - It's been a long time!

Yeah!

Meet my daughter, Poornima.

- Hello! Lovely meeting you. - Nice meeting you.

- Is she a lawyer? - Yeah.

She's an independent lawyer.... at the Supreme Court.

Wow! That's nice!

There's a matter at the High Court tomorrow.

- So, we came here together. - Okay.

How will we handle this case?

His marriage has been fixed.

If he doesn't get bail...

Usually, bail won't be granted.

But when it comes to clients like you,

I have my own ways, CJ.

First, let's try for a settlement.

This girl's father has two sons from his first marriage.

Let's make an attempt through them.

But you just landed!

How could you...?

That's how I function!

Once I accept a case,

I'll do a background study first.

Then, I'll try for a settlement.

But that would be more profitable for both of us.

Okay, okay.

Sir!

I called you guys to talk about the settlement.

We can pay a fair amount to that girl as compensation.

You must talk to her father.

We will talk to him, sir.

What would be the amount, sir?

- Come. - Okay, sir.

There's no point in fighting the case, Dad.

You'll only be humiliated further.

He will be acquitted easily.

His dad is loaded with money.

Nothing will work against them.

We can demand this only as long as he is in jail.

If you settle this, accepting the amount they're offering,

you can live comfortably hereafter.

I'm happy that you guys took the effort to come here, my dear sons.

Dad, though we're not related by blood,

Sara is our sister, after all.

If she has a problem, shouldn't we intervene?

If you are saying this honestly,

you should be helping us in fighting against them legally.

We won't be able to fight them legally, Dad.

They will purchase everything they want.

If there's such a possibility before them,

will they be ready for a settlement with us?

They're not interested in pursuing the case.

We just have tell them the amount that we need.

I spoke for so long just to get this out of your mouths.

Don't I know how the two of you are?

Am I not your father?

Get out of here!

Shameless fellows!

Trying to make a settlement?

- Sara, we were.. - I have nothing more to say.

Even if we lose the case,

we're not so desperate as to live off their money.

No one has to come here to talk about that!

- No wonder this happened to you! - Get out of here!

You will suffer for what you did to my mother!

You will suffer doing endless rounds of the court, with this blind girl.

I don't care! Get out of here!

Get out, both of you!

What did the Minister say?

He is upset.

His daughter hasn't been able to digest the fact that Michael is innocent.

Sir!

I don't think the settlement would be possible, sir.

- Are they on the line? - Yes, sir.

What's the problem?

Sir, Dad is not agreeing to the settlement.

Are there any media-persons over there?

No, sir.

You must call some people from the media.

Okay.

Okay, sir.

What is it?

We have a small task.

Do you know who we are?

We are the victim's brothers.

We know why you've gathered here.

- Didn't you call us here? - Who called you?

Didn't you call us here?

- Who the hell called you here? - Mind your language!

Hello, sir!

- Mohammed, what have you done? - Sir, I...

Didn't I tell you that we should be really careful

until the bail application is considered?

- Let me tell you, sir. - Annoying the media will act against you.

Sir, I'm not aware of all this.

You know who's representing the culprit, right?

India's leading Defence Lawyer.

Advocate Rajashekhar.

Where are you all running off to?

- Is it a roll call? - Rajashekharan sir has a trial today.

- Which Rajashekharan? - Rajashekharan sir, from Supreme Court.